Bill Partin on how we need to adjust to the future of work
Coaching for peak performance is not just about talking to someone about the great things they’ve done. It’s talking about where they can improve. It’s challenging them.
The number one leadership initiative in any organization today is improved coaching. Coaching empowers employees, empowerment drives engagement, and engagement drives performance. At its core, coaching is about transformation. Leading distributed teams requires transforming how we coach and changing our play calls and playbooks to get things done. As a part of our interview series called “Moving From Command & Control to Coaching & Collaboration; How Leaders and Managers Can Become Better Coaches,” we had the pleasure to interview Bill Partin.
Bill Partin is Founder and Chief Encouragement Officer of The Leadership Bet, LLC and former President and CEO of Sharonview Federal Credit Union. He has 40+ years of experience in the financial services industry and a passion for developing leaders, driving results and creating an energizing work culture. His passion for leadership led him to establish The Leadership Bet, a consultancy for leaders, and to write a book, “The Leadership Bet: Great Leadership Transforms Lives.”
Thank you for joining us to explore a critical inflection point in how we define leadership. Our readers would like to get to know you better. What was a defining moment that shaped who you are as a leader?
I started in the financial services business when I was 20. And for the first almost 10 years of my career as I was climbing the ladder in banking operations, I wasn’t a leader. I was a manager. Six or seven years in, I started thinking about what makes someone a leader. It’s a question I’ve been studying ever since.
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